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Part of the Pride
My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
St. Martin's Press
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The...
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Power of the Dog
Things Your Dog Can Do That You Can't
St. Martin's Press
“They’re so human!” we emote. But recent scientific findings point to dogs being very different than us humans. Dogs can do many things that we can’t,...
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The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Holt Paperbacks
“One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.” —Newsweek Acclaimed as “extraordinary” (The...
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Central Park in the Dark
More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Picador
Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through...
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The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights
Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
St. Martin's Griffin
With more than two million members and supporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the world’s largest animal-rights organization, and...
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The Mad Fisherman
Kick Some Bass with America’s Wildest TV Host
St. Martin's Griffin
Charlie Moore was married with two kids when his bait-and-tackle shop went under. A fisherman and an entrepreneur, Charlie set out to star in his own fishing...
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Travels in the Greater Yellowstone
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America’s greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In a series of...
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Fierce Heart
The Story of Makaha and the Soul of Hawaiian Surfing
St. Martin's Press
Fierce Heart is the biography of a community and a portrait of its people. Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of Oahu, it has...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Holt Paperbacks
"Klare’s superb book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps unless we muster the will to transform the way...
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Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Holt Paperbacks
"A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy."—Kirkus Reviews On May 15, 2006, a...

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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...
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The Control of Nature
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
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Encounters with the Archdruid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the...
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Birds of North America, Revised and Updated
A Guide To Field Identification
Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping...
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Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
St. Martin's Griffin
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over...
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Birds
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you: What to look for Where and when to look How to...
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Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
St. Martin's Griffin
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how...
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The Meadow
Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...
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The Life of the Skies
Birding at the End of Nature
Picador
In The Life of the Skies, Jonathan Rosen explores the significance of this timeless pursuit, chronicling his own birding adventures alongside those of John...
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Living on the Wind
Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
North Point Press
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do....
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Song for the Blue Ocean
Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist...
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Wildflowers
Revised and Updated
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This is a practical beginner's guide to the most common American wildflowers. Emphasis is on those with showy petals and those that the amateur is most likely...
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Fight Global Warming Now
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Holt Paperbacks
Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world’s greatest threat Hurricane...